A number of professional software tools don't make it particularly easy to visualize the internal states of the thing they're operating on.

· Bits and Bobs 9/7/26
  • A number of professional software tools don't make it particularly easy to visualize the internal states of the thing they're operating on.
    • The experts who use them are trained so they don't "need" them.
    • Visualization is expensive to set up, but it makes whole classes of errors immediately self-evident in a way that they aren't, even for an expert.
    • Fable-class models make it trivial to make visualizations, making it easier to find these error states, even for non-experts.